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IVAN BRIGHTLY
Ivan holds the role of Chief Technology Officer for Galaxy Investment Partners. Ivan began his professional career in 2000 as an analyst at Investors Bank and Trust. From 2001 through 2003, Ivan was a Systems Administrator at Bank of New York before joining the foreign currency trading firm FXCM in 2003, where he ultimately became the Chief Information Officer until his departure in October 2012. As CIO for FXCM, Ivan was responsible for the global technology needs of the firm. After a decade at FXCM, Ivan launched Brightwave, an independent technology consulting company that provided security assessments, contract negotiations and general technical needs for financial services companies. In 2014, Ivan co-founded SolidX Partners, which offered synthetic institutional access to bitcoin and pursued an SEC-registered ETF. Over the past few years, Ivan has routinely been requested as an advisor to cryptocurrency companies, including companies attempting to issue ICOs. Ivan graduated from UMASS Amherst in 2000, BA, Economics, Dean’s List. He also is a Certified Bitcoin Professional as deemed by C4 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Jeremy Gardner is the founder and chairman of the Blockchain Education Network (BEN) and a founder of Augur, the decentralized prediction market platform. He now works as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Blockchain Capital, where he has started a new company, SAAVHA, and serves as editor-in-chief of Distributed Magazine. Outside of the blockchain space, he is a board member at Unsung, the food waste and hunger-fighting nonprofit startup.
JEREMY GARDNER Oleg Poskotin is an entrepreneur, startup founder, and go-to-market strategist. He is currently the CEO of Los Angeles-based Cryptonomos, a full-service advisory and market place for launching ICOs that has raised $25,000,000 in tokens from its community of 30,000 members. Poskotin is also a co-founder of both the virtual reality platform ViarLive, and the innovative legal app Enkrypt. After completing his studies in finance and accounting at Cal-State Northridge, Poskotin first worked for the video game publishing platform Xsolla rising to be their VP of Finance.
OLEG POSKOTIN
Chance Barnett is the CoFounder of CoinCircle. Prior to CoinCircle Chance was the CoFounder and CEO of Crowdfunder.com, the venture fund + equity investment platform for crowdsourcing early stage capital online with high net worth investors. In founding Crowdfunder, Chance played an early and significant role in JOBS Act legislation & regulation in Washington D.C.– engaging with senior leadership across Congress, the White House, and the SEC. Chance has since been invited by foreign governments and private leadership around the world to consult on policy for entrepreneurship and access to capital in emerging markets.
CHANCE BARNETT
Prior to founding Crowdfunder in late 2011, Chance co-founded two successful Internet companies in publishing and media, became a hands on angel investor and advisor for early stage startups, a Forbes Contributor on Startups and Crowdfunding, as well as a published best-selling author in the areas of Entrepreneurship and Personal Development. Chance is a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Economics and lives in Venice, California.
Malcolm Westley CasSelle is CIO of OPSKinsand President of WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange)(Worldwide Asset eXchange), a decentralized platform for the development of secure and transparent in-game virtual item exchanges on the blockchain, created by OPSkins.
MALCOLM CASSELLE
Prior to WAX, CasSelle was an international entrepreneur and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and President of New Ventures at tronc, Inc. (formerly Tribune Publishing). Prior to tronc, Inc., he was Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media of SeaChange International. He joined SeaChange International in 2015 as part of the company’s acquisition of Timeline Labs, where he served as CEO. Previously, CasSelle led startups in the digital industry, including MediaPass, Xfire and Groupon’s joint venture with Tencent in China.
For the past 30 years, Rami has been at the forefront of the digital advertising industry in Israel. He has founded and lead a number of successful agencies specializing in digital marketing, social media and e-commerce, working with both Israeli clients and international brands including LivePerson, Clinique, Pizza Hut, Warner Brother and Avis among others. Prior to that, he was a pioneer in Israeli radio, founding Radio Ezori (Regional Radio) in 1995, and creating an advertising model that brought the station to full penetration within the Israeli market within a short period of time. Rami is experienced in advising and accompanying businesses in every stage of development from initial idea to successful launch and beyond.
RAMI SHECHTER
Vanywhere is a live skill-sharing platform that instantly connects people seeking and offering skills. All interactions happen through live, 1-on-1 video, voice and chat or offline gigs for freelance projects. Skillers set their own price per minute/project and are paid in VANY tokens through peer-to-peer blockchain transactions with zero commission taken. Our team has 30+ years of digital marketing experience working with leading international brands.
WILLIAM QUIGLEY
William Quigley is CEO of OPSkins, the world’s largest marketplace for video game virtual items. He is also managing director of Cashel Enterprises, a crypto currency focused investment vehicle. Cashel has incubated and invested in over 40 Bitcoin, blockchain and crypto currency related investments. Quigley co-founded many transformative crypto companies including Tether, a USD deriviative adopted by many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges and GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor. He and his business partner Jonathan Yantis- OPSkins COO - were early backers and the largest investors in Mastercoin, the technical forerunner to Ethereum and the world’s first ICO. The Mastercoin team invented the concept of a blockchain based smart contract. Prior to forming Cashel, William co-founded Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700 million early stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on Internet investments. He also co-founded the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm, idealab Capital Partners, and led Internet incubation efforts at idealab, the most successful consumer Internet incubator of the Web 1.0 era. Prior to Clearstone, William spent seven years in a variety of business planning and new venture roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance and operational roles at Euro Disney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney Consumer Products. He oversaw strategic planning and finance activities for the Walt Disney Company’s licensing division, the world’s largest consumer products licensor. William also co-managed Disney’s Merchant Banking Group, where he negotiated and structured acquisitions and equity investments in the company’s strategic licensees. William received his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in Accounting, with honors, from University of Southern California. He was trained as a CPA and a Kauffman Fellow.
ERICK MILLER
Erick is an entrepreneur and investor. Erick is currently the founding CEO at CoinCircle, a new blockchain startup with a bold vision to “tokenize the world”. He’s also a founding member of the UCLA Blockchain Lab, a collaborative community of blockchain advocates on a mission to advance the progress and development of blockchain technologies. As an entreprenuer Erick has been in founding roles with several startups; two have had great exits. Erick’s last startup where he was the founder, CEO and the largest investor pioneered smart glasses and was Snapchat’s first acquisition. As an investor Erick founded Hyperspeed Ventures, where he invests in the dreams of audacious entreprenuers fixated on executing huge ideas that will make massive impacts in the world. Hyperspeed has made daring early bets in world changing startups for example, Quantum Computing, Genetic Editing, Space 2.0 Rocket / Satellites, and Electric Jet companies, just to name a few. Erick works hard every day to position himself at the precipice of new explosive waves of technological change and the massive new opportunities that emerge from them. He also has over 15+ years of software engineering and technology management experience. He has participated in the Artificial Intelligence computer science program at Stanford, the Venture Capital and PE program at Harvard, has an MBA from UCLA as well as a Masters in Business from the National University of Singapore. He’s presented globally at a number of high profile tech events such as SXSW, Siggraph, TEDxStanford, has co-authored several globally published books, and was even nominated for a technical Academy Award for a 3D software simulation system he wrote in 2007.
In addition to providing strategic counsel to Factom, David is the Managing Director of the Dapps Venture Fund, the first fund to invest entirely in open-source, block-chain and token-based projects. He also co-founded and served as Executive Director of BitAngels in 2013, one of the world’s largest angel investment groups. An avid entrepreneur and early adopter of emerging technologies, David has founded several enterprises in industries ranging from software to biotech.
DAVID JOHNSTON
Gil Penchina is a serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor. He is on the board of Fastly, Vouch Financial, UXPin and Wikia. Previously he was CEO of Wikia, now a top 50 website and a member of the pre-IPO team at eBay. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Kellogg. In addition, Gil has been an active angel investor in 70 companies over the last 15 years including Linkedin, Paypal, INDIEGOGO, Wealthfront, Beepi, Datanyze, UXPin, Contactually, Couchsurfing, Songpop and many others. His portfolio is available at: https://angel.co/penchina
GIL PENCHINA
Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, a Seattle-based eSports startup. Previous to Unikrn, Sood created the first incubation fund for startups at Microsoft, and eventually Microsoft consolidated their global startup activities under Sood’s leadership. In June 2013, he launched Microsoft Ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Sood spent 18 years in multiple startups prior to joining Microsoft. He founded luxury and gaming computer manufacturer Voodoo, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Voodoo brought the ENVY and OMEN product lines to HP, contributing advanced technologies such as commercial liquid cooling and an increased focus on design.
RAHUL SOOD
With a deep background in video gaming and entertainment, Sood sits on the board of advisors for Razer, a company that is widely known for taking over where Voodoo left off. He is also an early investor and active advisor in Vrvana, a leading Mixed Reality hardware company based in Montreal.
David is the founder and managing partner of Blumberg Capital. David is an authority on early stage investing with more than 25 years of experience. He founded Blumberg Capital in the early 1990s and launched its first venture-backed fund in 2001. Prior to Blumberg Capital, David managed international investments with the Bronfman Family Office, Adler & Co, APAX Partners and at T. Rowe Price. He also launched business development for Check Point Software Technologies as one of its top four executives.
DAVID BLUMBERG
David earned his A.B. in Government, cum laude, from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD. David speaks French and is proficient in Hebrew and Spanish. David serves on the boards of Apester, CaseStack, Credorax, Deep Instinct, DoubleVerify, EarnUp, FeeX, Firmitas, Fortscale, IntSights, Kreditech, Namogoo, Trulioo, Wunder and Zooz. He also serves on the Board of The Lincoln Club of Northern California and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
CEO, executive coach, public speaker, and filmmaker currently residing in San Francisco, California. Richard’s interests range from technology to politics and particularly the process through which people and organizations evolve and change.
RICHARD TITUS
Igor Barinov is an award-winning blockchain expert known for pioneering developments in blockchain enabled notary. Igor is currently the co-founder and project manager of Oracles Network, an open, permissioned and public blockchain network built on Ethereum protocol with Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus reached by independent pre-selected validators. Igor devotes all his time to innovating around blockchain scalability and making open networks more affordable to businesses. Igor holds more than 16 blockchain and computer programming accolades and won blockchain hackathons at the Consensus, Texas Bitcoin Conference, BitHack, and Distributed Trade.
IGOR BARINOV
Dave Carlson is the founder of MegaBigPower, now Giga Watt, and a pioneer in the Bitcoin mining industry. As a software engineer and veteran entrepreneur, Dave has been instrumental in the success of several multimillion-dollar startups. He founded MegaBigPower in 2012 as a groundbreaking megawatt-scale Bitcoin mining center to successfully scale up blockchain transaction processing. MegaBigPower has recently been transformed into Giga Watt, a venture on the cutting edge of the Bitcoin and blockchain industry, providing customers a wide range of powerful mining solutions.
DAVE CARLSON
SPENCER BOGART
Spencer Bogart is a Managing Director and the Head of Research for Blockchain Capital, the General Partner of Blockchain Capital’s venture funds. Spencer is a fundamental investment analyst with a rare combination of deep experience analyzing cryptocurrencies as well as traditional equity opportunities. Prior to joining Blockchain Capital, Spencer was a Vice President at Needham & Company, where he authored Wall Street’s first industry report highlighting the use-cases, companies and potential of blockchain technology. He was also the most active Bitcoin analyst on Wall Street writing detailed reports and research on Bitcoin’s fundamental value proposition, price forecast, and technical advancements. Aside from leading all research efforts related to Bitcoin and Blockchain during his time at Needham & Company, Spencer also covered public SaaS, FinTech, and Internet companies, authored reports on those sectors, and issued price targets on companies under coverage. Prior to Needham & Company, Spencer cut his teeth in the startup world where he helped build a first-of-its-kind proprietary research platform for analyzing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), which was later acquired by FactSet. Given his rare combination of skillsets and history of actively publishing reports, Spencer is widely cited throughout the Bitcoin and Blockchain industry and is a regular speaker at industry and startup events. Spencer is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and earned his B.A. in Business Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.
A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Liam holds a degree in Economics from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He also holds a Masters in Finance from the University of Durham. Starting as a Portfolio Manager for UK-based IFA company, Liam quickly moved up to Analyst at a London-based Fund of Investment Trusts. He sat on the Yen desk for Light Peak capital and a Hedge Fund, successfully trading Euros, Yen and Dollar Yen for 18 months. After increasing his book five-fold, he returned to private client wealth management. Discovering Bitcoin in 2012, Liam saw its potential and established the first Digital Currency brokerage in London
LIAM ROBERTSON
Ms. Galia Benartzi is a technology entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Bancor, where she serves as Head of Business Development and Strategy. Ms. Benartzi was previously Founder and CEO of cross-platform development technology company Particle Code, which was acquired by Appcelerator in 2012. After Particle, Galia became an EIR at Trinity Ventures and later a Venture Partner for San Francisco based Founders Fund, focusing on the Israeli technology ecosystem. Ms. Benartzi holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. in International Monetary Theory from SAIS Johns Hopkins. She recently spoke at TEDx Tel Aviv on the Blockchain Value Revolution.
GALIA BENARTZI
JACK TATAR is co-author of “Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond”. Jack has over two decades of experience in financial services including as a financial advisor and executive with Merrill Lynch, and as owner of GEM Research Solutions, a leading research provider to the financial services industry. He is an angel investor and advisor to startups in the cryptoasset community, and speaks and writes frequently on the topic. He was one of the first financial professionals to receive certification from the Digital Currency Council and is the coauthor of one of the earliest books on Bitcoin, What’s the Deal with Bitcoins? as well as numerous books on retirement and finance
JACK TATAR
Michael Terpin is founder and CEO of Transform Group, whose divisions include Transform PR, a global public relations firm that has served more than 100 clients in the blockchain field; Coinovate, a cryptocurrency consulting and development company; CoinAgenda, an event series for cryptocurrency investors, and SocialRadius, one of the nation’s first social media marketing firms twice named to the Inc. 5000. Transform Group is headquartered in Las Vegas, with offices in Santa Monica, Silicon Valley, NYC, and San Juan.
MICHAEL TERPIN
Terpin also co-founded BitAngels (www.bitangels.co), the world’s first angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, and he is managing partner of bCommerce Labs (www.bcommercelabs.com), the first blockchain incubator fund, and a partner in Flight.VC’s Bitcoin Syndicate on AngelList. Previously, Terpin founded Marketwired, one of the world’s largest company newswires, which was acquired in 2006 and later sold to NASDAQ for $200 million. He also co-founded Direct IPO, one of the earliest equity crowdfunding companies, and founded and sold his first PR firm, The Terpin Group.
SETH SHAPIRO
Two-time Emmy® Award winner Seth Shapiro is a leading advisor in business innovation, media, and technology. He is Head of Strategy at Live Planet and VideoCoin; Media and VR/AR Specialist at Alphabit Digital Currency Fund; Partner at blockchain consultancy BroadBlock: Governor of Interactive Media at The Television Academy; Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; and Chair of the VR/AR Project. His clients have included The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, DIRECTV, Intel, AT&T, Interpublic Group, NBC, Showtime, RTL, Telstra, Universal, Slamdance, Goldman Sachs, government bodies, and a wide range of blockchain and VR/AR ventures. Shapiro has been quoted in outlets including The Economist, The New York Times. The LA Times, CNBC, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, The Associated Press, PBS and The Daily Mail. As Head of Production at DIRECTV Advanced Services, he launched over 25 services, including NFL Sunday Ticket Interactive and TiVo by DIRECTV, the world’s first major DVR platform. His first book, “TELEVISION: Innovation, Disruption, and the World’s Most Powerful Medium”, was published in 2016.
As one of the company’s founders and a marketing, PR & communications specialist with 10+ years of experience, Daria helped develop the ICOBox’s product concept and its unique market positioning. Diverse experience in marketing, from event management to brand and marketing strategy development, with a focus on infrastructure companies. Successfully completed a wide variety of marketing campaigns, including the most recent ICOS token sale by ICOBox and a campaign for Giga Watt Token Launch implemented by Cryptonomos. Joined blockchain industry over a year ago.
DARIA GENERALOVA
MIKO MATSUMARA
Miko Matsumura founded crypto exchange Evercoin, and is a Limited Partner with the Pantera Capital ICO Fund (a $100M ICO-only fund). He is personally invested in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy and Lyft. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in the crypto-fueled Internet of value. As a 25 year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in capital for Open Source startups. He currently advises cryptocurrency startups like PlayKey, WiFiCoin, Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services) and Hub (Decentralizing Professional Social Networking). He is also an LP with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits. He holds an Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks. He’s leads the Crypto Underground meetup in San Francisco and is a speaker at the upcoming Token Fest, Keynoting at ICOnference NYC, Blockchain Life in St. Petersburg Russia, Global Blockchain Summit, The Future of Money Summit and more.
DAVID DRAKE
David Drake is the Chairman of LDJ Capital, a multi-family office based in New York, with investments and assets being managed in the areas of real estate, energy, tech, media, telecoms, among others. He represented the US Commerce Department at the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome in 2012 and was invited to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C. and was a speaker at the UK Parliament in 2013. He speaks as an equity expert all over the world and in top universities like Cambridge, NYU, Cornell, Columbia, and writes regularly for major publications such as WSJ, Forbes, Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters, VentureBeat. He is the co-author of the book Planet Entrepreneur and Crowdfunding and Other Animals and is the author of the upcoming book The Crowdfunding Economy and LIFEE: Life Instructions for Entrepreneurs and Executives. Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit. Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor and strategic advisor and CEO of Science, Inc. He is Los Angeles’s most active angel investor with more than $2.5B in exits. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). He is also a long-time entrepreneur. He started his first company in college, and he was previously the CEO of Userplane (acquired by AOL), Tsavo (acquired by Cybermedia), PBJ (acquired by JB), MySpace (acquired by Specific Media), Myspace Japan (acquired by Softbank), and FIM (acquired by Rubicon Project).
MIKE JONES
RYAN TAYLOR
Ryan Taylor is currently the CEO of Dash Core, leading the growth and development of the number one digital currency for payments. Dash is an innovative digital currency that offers a number of improvements over Bitcoin, and is a popular payments option for consumers online, and at the Point of Sale. Ryan is an expert in the payments industry, with over 15 years of experience in financial services and technology. Prior to Dash, Ryan was a hedge fund analyst covering a global stable of payments industry investments for the private equity and public market funds of a $20 billion investment firm based in New York. He possesses a comprehensive understanding of the payments landscape and the drivers for success within the payments industry. Ryan was previously an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Business Technology Office in New York, where he served senior executive clients of some of the world’s largest financial institutions, covering a wide variety of strategy and technology topics. Ryan holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School with a concentration in Finance and Economics, and a Bachelor of Science from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Alex runs investments at Deloitte Ventures in London actively supporting early stage technology startups. He also heads Deloitte’s Blockchain practice in the UK where he co-founded and led the team to create Smart ID, an open source identity management platform, and a number of other blockchain-based assets. Prior to that Alex was doing strategy consulting at Monitor Deloitte where he worked with some of the largest companies in technology, media, telecoms and payments across the globe as well as startups, and focused on helping clients launch and grow digital businesses, development of digital propositions, product management, growth and commercial strategy, and M&A. He completed his PhD in Electronic Engineering at the University of Westminster.
ALEXANDER SHELKOVNIKOV
George is a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultant and advisor to global financial institutions, startups and law firms. He recently co-authored a seminal report on blockchain architecture with KPMG: https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/ pdf/2016/06/kpmg-blockchain-consensus-mechanism.pdf and Gilbert & Tobin on consortiums: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/blockchain-and-shared-ledgers-new-age-consortium . He also writes a blog on blockchain technology and use cases at sammantics. com. George also co-founded BTC.sx, now magnr, a bitcoin trading platform in 2013. He is also a former Wall Street Senior Portfolio Manager and Market Strategist as well as a technical analyst.
GEORGE SAMMAN Andrey has 7 years of experience in all marketing segments: agency, client and media. He has executed over 100 full-scale projects for international companies (e.g. Samsung Electronics, including ATL, BTL and digital). For the last 3 years he was in charge of all Natus Vincere (Na`Vi) team marketing projects, delivering outstanding Esports marketing campaigns which were short-listed on the Effie Awards.
Andrey Cherednychenko Peter is an experienced entrepreneur with a focus on consumer retail and technology. In 2013, he co-founded Instamart, the largest venture-backed online grocery delivery operator in Russia. Instamart has attracted $10m of investment from Mail.Ru Group (LSE:MAIL), a former Vice-President of Wal-Mart and Vice-Chairman of Jet.com and others. In 2017, he co-founded and became CEO of INS, a global distributed online manufacturer-to-consumer platform, which enables consumers to purchase directly from manufacturers without the intermediation of retailers and is powered by a self-regulating community of shoppers and manufacturers. Prior to Instamart and INS, Peter was a private equity professional with the Internet & Technol-
Peter Fedchenkov
ogy and Retail practices of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, the leading growth equity fund in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with over $3.7bn AUM. Previously, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. Peter teaches a retail specialization class in the bachelor’s degree program at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is a frequent speaker at business and retail conferences organized by Harvard Business Review, Russian Retail Week, Efficient Consumer Response and others. Peter holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Specialist degree in Mechanics & Applied Mathematics with High Honors from the Moscow State University.
Joel co-founded the first smart contract educational channel (EtherCasts), the Ethereum Silicon Valley meetup, wrote the original “AppCoin Manifesto,” and built the first decentralized asset and governance platforms on the Bitcoin blockchain. Joel facilitated the “LoveNest” blockchain-community living space in Palo Alto, holds awards from Google and Salesforce.com, and has presented on topics including Decentralized Autonomous Society, DAO Democracy, Futarchy, and Liquid Democracy. He holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania.
JOEL DIETZ
Daniel Cawrey is co-founder & CEO of Pactum Capital, a firm helping cryptocurrency stakeholders manage risk. He was previously a Contributing Editor for CoinDesk, the largest news resource for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.
DAN CAWREY
Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Western Investments Capital, LLC a Nevada and Puerto Rico entrepreneurial family office involved in venture capital, private equity and public securities. Asset mix includes commercial real estate, public equities, fixed income, mortgage backed securities, structured finance and municipal bonds. Venture investing is focused on disruptive themes with emphasis on media and financial industry technologies. Investor in Blockchain and crypto assets since 2014. Investor and Board member in Ark Invest, an active ETF sponsor in disruptive technology including digital and crypto assets.
TANIA MODIC
Tania holds a B.S. and M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Southern California. Prior career as Group Vice President – Bank of America World Banking Corporate Finance. President and Chief Operating Officer of Miller’s Outpost, a California based chain of 205 retail stores sold to the Brenninkmeijer Group in the Netherlands.
Serhii has 8 years of experience in the software development realm evangelizing Big Data, IoT, AR and Blockchain technologies. He is a certified business analyst. He is fond of emerging technologies, software programming, games and crypto investments. He believes Dmarket is a revolutionary Marketplace for the Global market economy.
Serhii Danylyuk
Dominik is a co-founder of WINGS, a community of project backers which evaluates ICOs responsible for over $300M in funding, and Head of Communications at WINGS Stiftung. He is former Head of Communications & Business Development at Mastercoin (now Omni) Foundation - the first project to perform an ICO. Advisor at AdEx, DomRaider, MedicalChain, and AnthemGold. Formerly co-founder of State Software Inc. the company which coined and popularized the JSON standard. He holds a BA, Economics and Political Science (minor) from Middlebury College.
DOMINIK ZYNIS
Former Peace Corps leader in the Republic of Moldova supporting rural economic development. A crowdfunding expert studying crowdsourcing and it’s monetization, Ethan Clime is CEO of Crowdholding.com and co-founder of Blockchain Hub in Prague.
ETHAN CLIME
Dylan is an accomplished entrepreneur who has founded multiple businesses over the past several years. He is currently a co-founder with Sensytec, a smart materials technology startup that has received over $3M in R&D funding to date. He is also an experienced e-commerce expert, operating his own Amazon storefront (SuperSenter) that generated >$500,000 in sales for 2016. His entrepreneurial achievements earned him honors and scholarship from the Texas Business Hall of Fame in 2015. His specialties are in business development, marketing, and growth strategies.
DYLAN SENTER
Trevor Koverko founded Polymath in 2017 to disrupt the securities industry by creating an open platform that gives businesses access to the blockchain, smart contracts and token creation technology. Prior to Polymath, Trevor Koverko was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, blockchain speaker, and cryptocurrency investor. Trevor founded eProf.com, an online education platform, and Digital Assets International, a world leading tech private equity firm. In 2015, Trevor’s Oculus Rift-based project became the world’s first VR exit. Trevor graduated academic All-Canadian from Canada’s top business school, Ivey, and was formerly a National Hockey league player, drafted by the New York Rangers in 2005. He has since invested in dozens of blockchain companies and was an original advisor/investor to the $30 billion USD Ethereum project. Trevor is 30 years old and splits his time between Toronto, Barbados and blockchain events worldwide.
TREVOR KOVERKO
Ajan Reginald is a recognised entrepreneur, expert and thought leader in the fields of Science and Medicine. Ajan is the Founder and chairman of Lifesci. Since 2006 Ajan has been the Founder and CEO of Celixir, a leading scientific company that develops cellular medicines and solutions to combat life-threatening and life-altering diseases. This company was co-founded with Professor Sir Martin Evans, Nobel of Medicine. Ajan has worked as Global Head of Emerging Technologies and Ex-Business Development Director at Roche. Previously, he was a Consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He studied at the Kellogg School of Management, Harvard and University of London.
AJAN REGINALD
Entrepreneur and product manager, highly passionate about blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. Worked on product at 2GIS (20M monthly audience). In charge of the project management track at CodeFest developers conference (1500+ attendees / year). Mined first Bitcoin in 2011 on a CPU.
Evgeny Ponomarev
Matthew Spoke is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nuco, a world-leading enterprise blockchain company, and the Founder of AION, the first enterprise multi-blockchain protocol. Prior to his current roles, Matt formerly founded Deloitte’s blockchain team, Rubix. Having now spent over 3 years exclusively in the blockchain industry, Matt has committed his professional career to seeing blockchain technology achieving its full potential within enterprise markets. With his recent work on AION, Matt has led the industry in articulating a vision for how blockchains will transform enterprise markets. Matt is also a Founding Steward of the Muskoka Group, a blockchain governance think tank, and a Founding Board Member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. In the Canadian market, Matt has also been appointed as Advisor to the Ontario Securities Commission and to the Ministry of Finance.
MATTHEW SPOKE
Teodora is a blockchain advocate with extensive experience in both the legal and the investor side of the crypto-world. Involved in FinTech straight out of university, Teodora is managing the business development of NexoBank, the company that aims to become the first digital asset bank.
TEODORA ATANASOVA
Antoni has been a crypto-enthusiast since 2011. As a Member of Parliament he has ferociously advocated and passed legislation for blockchain solutions on a variety of e-government services, most notably e-voting. Involved in several FinTech companies since 2013, Antoni is a Co-Founder of NexoBank, a company that strives to unlock the value of digital assets.
ANTONI TRENCHEV
KEN HAUSMAN
Ken Hausman is a managing director at Hausman Ventures, a strategic advisory and investment firm. He has a deep understanding of emerging technologies, with a focus on the Internet of Things ecosystem, and helps companies accelerate through his network. Hausman collaborates with venture capital companies and co-invests in startups, then helps build those companies through private networking events and innovation consulting. He and his team also address strategic positioning with senior corporate leadership. Previously, Hausman was managing director of MiradorCap, Osprey Ventures and Mentor Venture Partners, and was a venture partner with Greenspring Associates, a $3-billion venture capital fund of funds. He also served on Nasdaq’s President’s Advisory Board, was interim CEO of Avegant and is on the board of numerous IoT companies. He is past president of the Churchill Club and former board governor of the Commonwealth Club. Hausman holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Serial entrepreneur and cybersecurity expert Yo Sub Kwon was co-founder and chief architect at LaunchKey, a cybersecurity company that provides secure authentication services. He has a long history in the cryptocurrency space, having mined his first Bitcoins in 2010 and co-founded the Bitcoin financial trading platform Coinsetter in 2012. In 2013, Inc. Magazine placed Yo on its prestigious “30 Under 30” entrepreneur list. Coinsetter was acquired by Payward, Inc. in 2015. LaunchKey was acquired by Iovation in 2016. Currently, Yo invests in ICOs and offers smart-contract audits through his firm Hosho Group.
YO SUB KWON
Selwyn Figueras is the Head of Business Development at ISOLAS LLP, Gibraltar’s leading Law firm in the fintech/ICO space, established in 1892. A barrister by profession, he was also a Member of the Gibraltar Parliament between 2011 & 2015 as Shadow Minister for Justice. Selwyn is part of the Fintech team at ISOLAS LLP that has been driving the push for the development of Gibraltar as a centre of excellence for ICO and other related business.
SELWYN FIGUERAS
Colin Pape is a serial entrepreneur who founded the community commerce network, ShopCity.com. In 2011, Colin found himself mired in a battle with Google and realized that the world desperately needed a transparent and open search engine. He founded Presearch, an open, decentralized search engine that rewards community members with Presearch Tokens for their usage, contribution to, and promotion of the platform. Presearch caters to those who believe the world deserves a community-driven, Wikipedia-like search engine, and are willing to help build it.
COLIN PAPE
Vadim is responsible for relations with gaming publishers, conduct of company presentations on internal oral exhibitions, and gaming strategy of the company. Vadim has 8+ years of publisher relations experience in computer gaming and other digital content. His porfolio includes signing-on industry leaders like Ubiso , Bethesda and Sega.
VADIM ANDREEV
Co-Founder, REGA Risk Sharing
Leonid Morozovskii
Daniel was first introduced to computers at age 8, when neither he nor computers were cool. Naturally, he disassembled that first machine (not his own), examined the component parts, and later, under threat of immediate bodily harm, put it back together. From that time onward, computers and programming dominated his life. While still in high school, his misguided youth lead him to a minor misunderstanding with GTE (something about illegally accessing their national system) that brought Daniel into close contact with the FBI, and also convinced him at an early age that the most interesting challenges lay in the fields of telecommunications and digital security. He immediately began “white hat” coding for up-and-coming anti-virus software firms.
DANIEL SAITO
He is a serial entrepreneur, founder of seven NYC based startups, raising over $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Alex founded two of New York City’s top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000; Arbinet with a 2004 IPO that had a market cap of over $750M and Transit Wireless currently valued at $1.2 billion. He has also been a featured speaker at over 120 conferences and TV interviews, and the author of over 32 patents relating to exchanges, VOIP, messaging and communication.
ALEX MASHINSKY
Alex has received numerous awards for innovation including being nominated twice by E&Y as an entrepreneur of the year in 2002 & 2011, Crain’s 2010 Top Entrepreneur and the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology Medal and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation(presented in Geneva at Telecom 99). Alex is considered to be one of the pioneers of VOIP, with foundational patents dating back to 1994 many of today’s hardware and software designs originated from these early ideas. Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, Ad exchanges, Groupon, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other top performing web companies. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a Case Study in 2001 by Harvard Business School.
Evgeniya is Chief Operating Officer of B2Broker company, an IT Fin Tech company, with more than 40 clients all over the world. Evgeniya will unveil the full potential of B2BX project - first official provider of cryptocurrency liquidity. Evgeniya has 5 years of experience in the FinTech industry. She also has a Master in International Economics, an MBA in Project Management, and is the author of 11 scientific articles on economics.
Evgeniya Mykulyak
Managing Partner at GVA Capital, that invested over $120M in start-ups, opens the space for tech innovations and coworking called Hack Temple in San Francisco. Previously top executive at Adobe, Siebel (Oracle) and Microsoft. Founder of Actis (Wunderman/WPP), AdWatch (Dentsu/Aegis), Sputnik Labs (TechnoServ Consulting), the companies generating $100M+ in revenue.
Pavel Cherkashin
Alex Lubinsky, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rentberry, a decentralized home rental platform. Today, Rentberry is one of the fastest growing real estate technology companies, operating in more than 3,600 cities in the US. Alex and his team developed a proprietary auctioning protocol that allows prospective tenants to customize offers based on demand and competition for a specific property. This empowers quality tenants to negotiate better rates, saving them thousands of dollars. Alex is a blockchain evangelist since 2015 and this November he will be taking Rentberry to the next level via one of the largest Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).
Alex Lubinsky
Alex is an accomplished entrepreneur who has founded and sold several companies. Prior to Rentberry, he founded CityHour – a business app, recognized as one of the best networking solutions for professionals. Before that, Alex was an investment banking executive and served in many leadership positions across a number of companies in the US and Europe such as, Raiffeisen Investment, KBC Securities, Seven Hills and Deloitte.
David H. Brill is an experienced lawyer in the digital asset space representing digital asset exchanges, blockchain companies, financial institutions and pre-token sale companies. David is the former general counsel of Gemini Trust Company, a U.S.-based digital asset exchange. Prior to that, David was executive VP and General Counsel of American Stock Transfer & Trust, a private-equity-owned portfolio company. Before AST, David spent seven years with Thomson Reuters and worked in several capacities, including as a member of the corporate services executive team and as vice president and principal legal counsel.
DAVID BRILL
David is the former chair of the Corporate and Securities Committee of the New York City Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel,and he also served as its past president. David is a frequent writer and speaker on FinTech, digital asset matters, and securities law. He has been interviewed and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, Forbes and American Lawyer,among others. David earned his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law, where he was a member of the International Law Review.
Pradeep Goel, CEO has deep expertise in health and human services, finance and technology. He has been in the CEO, COO, CIO and CTO roles at various innovative technology companies, for more than 25 years. Pradeep was deeply involved in designing and building solutions for several public programs such as Medicaid, Children health insurance, Medicare, SNAP, TANF, mental health and many others. He has worked for and with insurance companies, employer sponsored benefits and US government programs related to healthcare, benefits and financial administration.
PRADEEP GOEL As a former administrator at Yale New Haven Hospital, Kat needed her existing revenue-generating platform, ConnectingCare, but could not find it, so she built SimplyVital. ConnectingCare quickly validated the hypothesis that adoption of SimplyVital’s visionary blockchain applications requires a “healthcare-grade” blockchain protocol - so they are building it. This protocol, Health Nexus, is the only blockchain protocol safely adoptable by healthcare. In April 2017, 2 months after incorporating SimplyVital, Kat was identified by Fortune Magazine among 34 Leaders Changing Health Care with the likes of Kaiser’s CEO and Bill and Melinda Gates. Connect with Kat to learn how they are using blockchain and their token, HLTH, to drive health care cost savings and making health care data an attainable liquid asset for the first time in history.
Katherine Kuzmeskas
Igor Khmel, Founder and CEO at BankEx, is a fintech entrepreneur, with unparalleled experience in product development, operations and digital strategy implementation in corporate and innovative start-up environments. Igor holds a number of degrees in physics, economics and business, including an MBA from Stanford GSB. His professional track-record includes management consulting at McKinsey and Deloitte, and investment & trading at Citadel hedge fund. He has had significant exposure to fintech, building a number of startups in California. Igor founded Sberbank Lab, a fintech laboratory at the largest bank in Eastern Europe, which he left after three years to build his own fintech project ‒ BankEx.
IGOR KHMEL
Founder & CEO of TokenReport, Galen is a financial journalist who has led and launched news sites covering startups, technology and venture capital.
GALEN MOORE
Following his tenure at Washington, D.C.-based Patton Boggs (now Squire Patton Boggs), David Silver was retained as outside counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). With his FDIC experience, David Silver has keen insight into financial markets and regulations and has become a recognized leader in the emerging world of cryptocurrency, helping investors who have been exploited after investing in digital assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. David Silver is currently the lead Class Action attorney representing investors who lost money against Cryptsy, Coinbase and Kraken. Investors in those three cases alone have suffered present value damages in excess of $100 million.
DAVID SILVER
Silver Miller is a law firm focused on business litigation and representing victims of financial fraud -- all on a contingency-fee basis. The firm believes that if it is not able to secure for a client any recovery of the client’s financial losses, the client should not pay the firm anything for its services. Our lawyers have experience at top-tier, national law firms and have the skills, experience, and commitment to serve clients at the highest level -- exclusively on a contingency-fee basis. Silver Miller’s lawyers have extensive experience litigating complex commercial matters, including cases involving financial fraud disputes, class action lawsuits, whistleblower claims, and professional malpractice disputes.
Alan Reid’s has spent 30 years in financial services, serving in many senior and advisory roles throughout the broad industry, including FinTech, Brokerage, Family Offices and Investment Advisory services. He serves as a President of The America’s for a Greek family’s Arista Shipping. He is an advisor to Caliber Real Estate, ZOIC Studios and FinTech Studios. In 2015 Reid and his partner Gordon Getty sold Forward Management LLC to Salien Partners. As a Founder and CEO of FORWARD, Reid led the firm and the U.S. mutual fund industry into the space he coined “Liquid Alts.” During his tenure, FORWARD led the industry awareness of mutual fund market timing, trading costs, liquidity, and it’s move to embrace alternatives.
ALAN REID
Alan served on The Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute, and its working group at The FED, focused on industry risk. Earlier in his career, he was the founding member of the SunGard Financial Solutions Advisory Board, fostering quarterly risk dialogue with Harry Markowitz. Reid previously founded and sold ReFlow LLC, an industry liquidity provider, and had numerous roles at Morgan Stanley including SVP of MS Online.
Co-founder at eBoost.
MARSHALL LONG Kurt Kumar is a Business Architect, entrepreneur and process transformation specialist with proven ability in bringing to life custom enterprise strength applications with features/functions and agility that cannot be matched by big firms. He has lead small guerilla teams to rapidly create prototypes of conceptual designs while applying bestof-breed, enterprise system and application solutions to meet business objectives on large-scale projects at Universal, DTV, Warner, Fox, Allianz, ESRI et al. Mr. Kumar runs the Los Angeles Blockchain meetup and BLOCK-CON (www.GoBlockCon.com). Strong believer that future is Decentralized.
KURT KUMAR
Yonatan Sela is an entrepreneur and digital media executive. Sela leads business operations and product strategy at YouNow. Yonatan joined the founding team of Tvinci, an online video / OTT platform, where he spent 5 years as VP Marketing and Product Strategy. He led Tvinci to 8 figures in revenue and an acquisition by Kaltura in 2014. Yonatan also co-founded Bookn’tell, an app that simplifies friend referrals for local service businesses.
YONATAN SELA
Prior to YouNow, Yonatan was a VC at Venrock, a firm whose past investments include Apple, Intel, AppNexus and others. While at Venrock he focused on opportunities in the Digital Media, FinTech and Bitcoin/Blockchain verticals, and was part of the team who made the investment in YouNow. Having worked closely with the YouNow team for months following the investment, he joined the company’s executive team.
As a media guru, product designer, entrepreneur and investor Susan Akbarpour has over 30 years of hands-on experience in building innovative products and businesses in technology and media. She is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Mavatar, the company she founded in 2011 based on her research in graduate school, soon after receiving her MS in Management from Stanford University in 2010. Mavatar’s “360 marketplace and shoppable content publishing” solutions provide retailers and media companies with a new way to measure IMPACT at the convergence of data intelligence, content and consumer-centric commerce . Susan’s recent mission is leading her world class team to create a “ Decentralized Attribution
SUSAN AKBARPOUR
Protocol that combines advanced blockchain technology and a fresh approach to “Basket Shopping and Influence Marketing” to address the lack of transparency and trust in the retail marketing value chain. Throughout her journey as an entrepreneur, journalist, publisher, investor, board member, community advocate and political fundraiser, Susan has received multiple media, community and business awards, spoken at various conferences and is frequently featured in mainstream media. Susan is also a general partner at Monjeri Investments, member of the board of directors at IMA International Executive Council and VOMax Corporation, member of Stanford Business School Alumni Association, Stanford Women On Boards, a prestige member of Watermark, a nonprofit organization that is a community of executive women.
Induprakas Keri is currently Vice President Development, Blockchain Technologies, where he leads all of Intuit’s efforts around Blockchain. Prior to that, he was Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Cloud Security at Intuit.
INDUPRAKAS KERI
Indu has had a long and distinguished career in technology. Prior to Intuit, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Limelight Networks, the number two Content Delivery Network (CDN). In his role as COO, he was responsible for products, R&D, professional services and customer support. During his tenure at Limelight, he built out a robust R&D organization, set in place people and process improvements that resulted in double-digit net promoter score increases and presided over the largest capacity increase in the company’s history. Prior to joining Limelight he was the Executive Vice President Products and Chief Technology Officer at SunGard Availability Services (a $1.5B business) where he drove the overall technology strategy of the company, ran R&D and delivered cloud-based DR products.
Project development, operations, co-founder Co-founder of Scorch.ai, Webvane, CEO of data management service, 10+ years in sales and business development
DMITRY MALYANOV
Neuroimaging scientist, serial crypto project developer and Blockchain Enthusiast. Telecommunications and cyber-security specialist. Former сommunity leader/advisor for Factom and Synereo. Chief Security Officer/President for Bitland Global
LARRY CHRISTOPHER BATES
